[arch-general] Multiple Kernels

[Muhammed Uluyol]

>> And if you really need to downgrade the kernel or another package just
>> do it with pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<packagename>-<oldversion>.
>
> I know this is the No.1 hint but this solution is not very well from my view
> because instead the hardidsk getting bigger and bigger it sounds unlogical to
> keep a lot of files in the cache and only a few one could be important for
> seldom cases.
>
> One of them which is important be the kernel. So if pacman would have the option
> to install a certain version of a package than the user need only to know if
> there is more than one version in db. So perhaps this coould be solved at
> example for a search of all by a "pacman -Ss --allversions ^kernel". Last not
> least repo-add and repo-remove must have the possibilty to do this too.
>
cp `ls -1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6* | tail -n 1` ./

Is it really that hard?